Toe-rail and bracket.



PATBNTBD JULY 31; 1906.

- D. L.l TSGHANTZ( TOE RAIL AND BRACKET.

l APPLIOATION FILED MAY a. 1905` g i xd y INVENTOR 19 1HE Nokms PETERS so., WASHINGTON, n. c.

- NITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE. DAVE) L. TsoHANTZ, oE oANTonoHro. I

TOE-RAIL AND BRACKET. j

Specification of Letters Patent.

raten-ed July 31, 190e.

Application filed May 3,1905. Serial No. 258,651.

To all. whom,` it may conce'rm.

Be it known that I, DAVID L. TsoHANTz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improve# ment in Toe-Rails and Brackets, of which the 1 following is a specification.

The invention relates to a toe-rail and bracket for the box of a vehicle; and the object vof the improvement is to provide a bracket which will serve jointly as a brace for the forward end of the vehicle-box, as a foot for the dash, and as a sup ort on which'the toe-rail can be readily a justed. This object is attained by the construction and arrangement illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the front part of a vehicle-box, showing the toe-,rail

and bracket in place; Fig. 2, a sectional.

it is extended Aand preferably cur-ved upward and forward to the rear side ofthe cornerpost, whence it is bent directly upward to form the shoulder portion 7, abutting against the post and extending to the upper end thereof, and whence it is bent directly forward along the top of the post and across the up` per ed e of the front board 8 of the box to a point ush with or preferably slightly in advance of theforward face thereof, where the end 9 of the bracket abuts against the dash 10 of the vehicle. The usual dash-bolt 11 is passed through the dash, the front board, the corner-post, and Ifinally through the apertures 12 in the shoulder portion of the bracket. By means of this construction and arrangement the bracket serves as a brace for the forward end of the box and at the same time it performs the function of the usual dash-foot. i

The upper and preferably convex face of the body 13 of the bracket is provided with the transverse serrations 14, in which similar serrations 15 on the under side of the ends 16 of the toe-rail are adapted to mesh. The

lugs 17 are provided on the under side of the toe-rail, near the ends thereof, which lugs are extended outward and under the body of the bracket, the space or interval between the lug extensions and toe-rail ends bein suiii-4 cientto permit a-disengagement of t e rail and bracket serrations.

Suitable means are employed for the serrations enmesh when the toe-rail is in the desired location-as, for instance, the screws 18, passed through'the lug extensions and adapted to be set against the under sides of the bracket-bodies. These screws are preferably provided with the butterfly-handles 19, sothat they can be readily manipu- What I claim as my invention, and desire tov secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a'vehicle-box, brackets extending from the sill to the corner-posts and having transverse serrations on the upper side, a toe-rail having serrations on the ends meshing with the bracket-serrations, and lugs on the under side of the rail extending under the brackets, with screws in the lugs adapted to be set against the under side of the brackets.

In 4testimony whereof I havel signed my name to this specification in the presence of 'two subscribing witnesses.

DAV-ID L. TSCHANTZ.

' Witnesses:

MAGGIE TsoEANTz, HARRY FEEAsE.

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